The theory of Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport has recently become popular in various applications in statistics and data science. Part of this popularity is due to a regularized version of the problem with the entropy serving as a penalty function.…
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Lecturer Part-Time in Statistics
Applications are invited for a non-tenure track Lecturer Part-Time position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. This is a multi-year, part-time position with a 9-month service period (September 16 - June 15) and an anticipated start date of September 16, 2025. The base full-time salary range for this position will be \$8,000 - \$11,500 per month. Compensation level will be based on professional experience and level of assigned duties.
The primary duties of a Lecturer Part-Time are instructional, and they include activities such as course coordination and supervision of teaching assistants, as well as departmental service. For this position, the successful applicant will be expected to teach three or more classes at the Undergraduate or Graduate levels, possibly cross listed across several units, depending on departmental needs.
Lecturer Part-Time - Temporary
Applications are invited for a Lecturer Part-Time - Temporary position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.
This appointment is for a part-time temporary position, with either a quarterly (September 16 - December 15 for Autumn quarter, December 16 - March 15 for Winter quarter, or March 16 - June 15 for Spring quarter) or a 9-month (September 16 - June 15) service period, depending on departmental needs.
Statistics Graders and Tutors
Applications are invited for Graders and Tutors in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.
These are hourly appointments open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Appointments are made on a quarterly basis. Current pay rates can be found here.
Research Papers
Aparajithan Venkateswaran, Emilija Perkovic
Published 7/9/2024
We study the problem of restricting Markov equivalence classes of maximal ancestral graphs (MAGs) containing certain edge marks, which we refer to as expert knowledge. MAGs forming a Markov equivalence class can be uniquely represented by an essential ancestral graph. We seek to learn the restriction of the essential ancestral graph containing the…
Vincent Roulet, Atish Agarwala, Jean-Bastien Grill, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Mathieu Blondel, Fabian Pedregosa
Published 7/8/2024
Curvature information -- particularly, the largest eigenvalue of the loss Hessian, known as the sharpness -- often forms the basis for learning rate tuners. However, recent work has shown that the curvature information undergoes complex dynamics during training, going from a phase of…
Michael Pearce, Elena A. Erosheva
Published 6/27/2024
In a traditional analysis of ordinal comparison data, the goal is to infer an overall ranking of objects from best to worst with each object having a unique rank. However, the ranks of some objects may not be statistically distinguishable. This could happen due to insufficient data or to the true underlying abilities or qualities being equal for some objects. In…
Recent News
We are pleased to announce that Statistics Ph.D. student, Oliva McGough, has received a 2025 Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). GRFP recognizes…
We are thrilled to share that Shreya Prakash, a Statistics Ph.D. student, has been chosen to attend the prestigious 2025 Rising Stars Workshop at the Oden Institute in Austin, Texas. This esteemed…
We are proud to announce that Statistics Undergraduate student Elvin Liu has won 3rd prize for his research project titled “A Comparison of Methods for Constructing Population Variance Confidence…